Team GB line-up squad of gold medalists and world champions for Kayak Cross debut at Paris 2024 Olympic Games
With Paris 2024 kicking off and introducing four new sports and some variations of already established Olympic sports at the Games. We’re taking a look at one of the new events that we’re set to see in France, with a member of Team GB the current world champion in the sport.
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00:00The gate's open. That is about the only certainty. Kayak Cross will be on screens for the first
00:07time this Olympic Games. What unfolds after the ramp drop is dynamic disorder, which for
00:13good measure demands competitors must also submerge themselves to complete a 360 degree
00:20boat roll. And at the end of it, Britain's Kimberley Woods is the Kayak Cross world champion.
00:26The 28-year-old, who claimed her first individual world title at Lee Valley last September,
00:30will be part of a Team GB canoeing squad full of medal potential in Paris, alongside Olympic
00:37medalists Joseph Clarke and Mallory Franklin, and Adam Burgess, who missed out on the Tokyo
00:42podium by 0.16 seconds. Despite the anticipated chaos, Woods will hope to replicate her Kayak
00:50Cross world gold and will also compete in the women's kayak singles, in which she finished
00:5510th on her Olympic debut three years ago.